Spread of North American wind-dispersed trees in future environments

Ecology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 211-219

  Nathan, Ran ^a   Horvitz, Nir ^a   He, Yanping ^b   Kuparinen, Anna ^c   Schurr, Frank M ^d   Katul, Gabriel G ^e  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Demography; Dispersal; Fat tailed dispersal kernels; Forecasting; Forests; Invasion by extremes; Long distance dispersal; Mechanistic models; Plant migration; Population spread; Range expansion; Survival; Wind dispersal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931749008     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01573.x     Document Type: Article

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